On 02/09, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>
> +static inline void __ticket_check_and_clear_slowpath(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
> +{
> + arch_spinlock_t old, new;
> + __ticket_t diff;
> +
> + old.tickets = READ_ONCE(lock->tickets);
> + diff = (old.tickets.tail & ~TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG) - old.tickets.head;
> +
> + /* try to clear slowpath flag when there are no contenders */
> + if ((old.tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG) &&
> + (diff == TICKET_LOCK_INC)) {
> + new = old;
> + new.tickets.tail &= ~TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG;
> + cmpxchg(&lock->head_tail, old.head_tail, new.head_tail);
> + }
> +}
Can't we simplify it? We own .head, and we already know it. We only need
to clear TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG in .tail atomically?
IOW,
static inline void __ticket_check_and_clear_slowpath(arch_spinlock_t *lock, __ticket_t head)
{
__ticket_t old_tail, new_tail;
new_tail = head + TICKET_LOCK_INC;
old_tail = new_tail | TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG;
if (READ_ONCE(lock->tickets.tail) == old_tail)
cmpxchg(&lock->tickets.tail, old_tail, new_tail);
}
Plus
- __ticket_check_and_clear_slowpath(lock);
+ __ticket_check_and_clear_slowpath(lock, inc.tail);
Or I missed something?
And I think it would be better to avoid ifdef(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS),
ww can just do
if (TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)
__ticket_check_and_clear_slowpath();
Oleg.
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